I mean China can absolutely be a victim of US foreign policy and still be an aggressor to other parts of the world.

They’re a victim of what? Exploiting their citizens? Stealing IP from other nations?

Is your understanding of foreign policy really so limited?

No I’m just not a CCP bootlicker who thinks that China/russia/NK is better and more free than the USA is.

You know something that China doesn’t do that the United States does? Periodically bomb Sovereign states For no reason.

Because they can’t… it’s why they’re supplying russia with shit in Ukraine.

Definitely inspiring stability throughout the Middle East and Latin America.

The middle east is and always has been a mess. Russia tried it before the USA did and china hasn’t been a world power long enough to give it a go. We should have never be involved with the middle east, but you’re defending china like they’re victims of big bad westernism. The difference between you and I is I don’t use whataboutism to defend nations that do fucked up shit.

To even remotely suggest that china is some sort of victim is hilarious, but ml gonna do tankie shit.

Seriously, the USA has its issues, but prior to trump, world stability was something that the USA was known for, because it projected our soft power via backing the USD. It’s why the world is quite pissed that the turnip is being a fucking idiot. China is not that way at all. They want to conquer countries, only reason they haven’t is because their land neighbors have nukes and they have a shit navy that’s crap for invasions.

CNA is a nonprofit the name isn’t directly associated with the us gov. They get funding from the gov just like a ton of nonprofits do but this doesn’t make them propaganda.

Yep, this isn’t a we want everyone to be closer to the office. This is a let’s see how many will quit first before we layoff the rest on our list.

https://www.cna.org/our-media/indepth/2024/03/china-loans-to-africa

It takes 2 seconds to research that china is using Africa as a debt trap with loans that are designed to trap nations.

Tankies gonna tank I guess…

China is raping Africa and they will be in debt to them forever. China is also a huge bully in the Philippines. They are not going to be good for stabilizing shit.

But you’re from lemmy.ml so it doesn’t matter what anyone says.

You take that back! It spawned andor which is also amazing. Rogue one proves they can actually make a gritty star wars film that shows a broken universe wouldn’t be all good vs evil bullshit.

You do know why firearm protests were peaceful right? There were 20k+ people armed in Virginia. The police got the fuck way back, and did not escalate force. The boots think they’re hot shit until the other side can sling hot shit towards them.

Wow, I don’t know why they keep saying “we’re unarmed”… people start open carrying at these protests. You want them to back off and leave? You want to not get shot with rubber bullets? These SS members are doing that shit because they know there won’t be any force returned to them. If this crowd showed up armed, they would have left a long time ago.

Naa I get it, I think I’m more annoyed at how the big guys (bands/nfl teams/companies/ect.) haven’t moved. Because if they do, they’re going to drag a ton of people with them and it’ll kickoff the migration.

Yea I really don’t understand this, like move it’s 2 seconds to join bluesky…like damn

The turnip won. It definitely helped

What’s stopping them from doing this now?

Or just say they ran out of paper. Like there are more pros than cons to this system. Nothing is going to be perfect.

I’m suggesting that if the abuse is large enough that it swings entire elections, then it should be looked into as a why it’s happening vs saying we shouldn’t do something about voter fraud because something else might happen.

Yea… I’m kinda seeing that. It’s not a hard concept lol it’s a paper receipt. Toss it away if you’re worried about it.

Sure while this is a concern, why aren’t we instead looking into the abuse vs suggesting we no do something because of another problem?

You could literally just throw it away and then they wouldn’t be able to do anything. If someone is threatening you to vote a certain way and they’re doing this to enough people that it makes a change… we’ve got much bigger problems than vote tracking.

Musk literally bought peoples votes…there are plenty of people who have no morals and absolutely would vote how they’re paid.

What’s stopping this now? Vote buying would happen regardless of a system.